Don’t get nostalgic: Punk music memorabilia burned in London

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LONDON — Don’t get nostalgic about punk music — and if you do, don’t go collecting memorabilia from the glory days of the Sex Pistols.

That seemed to be the message Saturday when the son of Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren and fashion designer Vivienne Westwood set fire to an extensive collection of punk memorabilia on a boat in central London.

Joe Corre claimed his collection of clothes, posters and other music-related items was worth 5 million pounds, $6.25 million.